EPTChapter 9: A Logician's View: Deduction, Induction, and Fallacies.
Thinking is easy. It's the transition from thinking to doing that is difficult. ~ Chris Larkins aka StealthBlue
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
Chapter 9: A Logician's View: Deduction, Induction, and Fallacies. Thinking is easy. It's the transition from thinking to doing that is difficult. ~ Chris Larkins aka StealthBlue | ||
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qet
Australia245 Posts
try to expand those points, start to order them, and soon you have the essay completed. | ||
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KrAzYfoOL
Australia3037 Posts
On October 12 2009 16:11 qet wrote: start with dot points for your ideas, try to expand those points, start to order them, and soon you have the essay completed. What is up with your syntax? | ||
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ThunderGod
New Zealand897 Posts
Maybe he's from Tasmania? | ||
riptide
5673 Posts
When my students say they don't know what to write, I usually give them an exercise like this - start writing, and write for 10 minutes. Do not stop to think, or edit or rest. This is going to be difficult at first because your sentences will be malformed and you'll want to go back and chop and change and edit. Don't. Resist this urge and write for 10 minutes no matter what. Then, take a break and come back in a few minutes, read your text, have a lulz. Frequently, and especially the first few times you do it, you may find yourself writing stuff like "WHAT DO I WRITE I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TO WRITE". That's fine, the idea is that words keep flowing out of your fingertips. You may be skeptical at first but try it, and I guarantee you will see a difference in your ability to begin output quickly. Beginning writing is the hardest part for a lot of students, and the only way to get over this initial hurdle is to actually just do it. By and by, you will get used to just opening up a new document, throwing down whatever comes to mind, and then organising this raw text in a way that's useful to you. The way I see it, the problem with your mind stopping short arises from the fact that the written word is given considerably more weight in our society than the spoken one. If you were asked to speak about the book chances are you'd be able at least get a few sentences out before you got stuck. What most people don't realise is that the language center of your brain is what powers both speech and writing. In short, most people (and this may not be true in your case) try and form complete, coherent sentences before beginning writing, and this, I maintain is like shooting yourself in the foot. Your brain forms language as you speak or write, so expecting a fully formed, beautiful sentence to fall in your lap is foolhardy. The biggest secret to starting to write a paper, answer, essay is ez, in theory at least - just start writing. Now, on to structure and planning. Especially if you find getting words down difficult, it is always good to break the paper down into little chunks. After you have your thesis statement down, break your points down and write an introductory sentence for each paragraph. Chances are the paper will seem much more manageable when it just looks like one big fill in the blanks exercise. I know structuring an answer may seem tedious at times, but having a skeleton down and just throwing meat on it is almost always less daunting than just staring at an empty piece of paper / word processor screen. Good luck, and write hard! | ||
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VorcePA
United States1102 Posts
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Spenguin
Australia3316 Posts
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T.O.P.
Hong Kong4685 Posts
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Chef
10810 Posts
I don't understand people who complain about writing papers. Some say they can never write enough, others say they can never fit it all within the limit. I just sit down and write till I'm done. What's so hard about finding quotations and explaining them in the context of your point? Rinse; Repeat; Stop when you only have enough words left for your conclusion. I think what makes writing hard for some people is that they're not comfortable with the time investment it is. YES long essays take 5 or so hours to write. Mostly because you're looking up sources and doing research at the same time, but that's totally normal and you should be prepared to do that. I focus on trying to get at least a page done an hour (setting my goals low, since I usually exceed that), and that time frame makes me comfortable with how long any one point might take me. Of course if you don't have to use any sources, or your own source is the original material, you should be able to finish in an hour since it's obviously a joke assignment. Especially double spaced, oh my god double spaced makes me feel so good. You write like two sentences in a minute and you've already gone down 6-8 lines. | ||
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